Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identity, corporate change, labour markets, democracy, tradition and social policy, and the implications for Korea's social cohesion in a continually globalizing world

Delicious Korean 31 is a Korean language textbook for immigrants residing in Korea that allows them to learn the Korean language and Korean dishes at the same time. This text book was constructed by integrating the Korean language, dishes and culture while taking careful consideration of the difficulty of the recipes and content

This book offers a glimpse at IRCICA's activities during the year 2016

Part of a series offering a historical overview of the development of the Kyujanggak library during the Joseon era (1392-1897) in what is now Korea. During the colonial period (1910-1945), Japanese authorities forcibly occupied the Daehan Empire and abolished Kyujanggak. The library's books became part of the (Japanese) Governor General’s office, then Gyeongseong Imperial University. Today they are housed in Seoul National University

The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test consists of verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing sections. This book is the only test prep guide that contains questions and topics from actual tests administered worldwide. It contains verbal and quantitative questions from seven actual GRE General Tests and sample analytical writing topics from the complete pool of topics for the analytical writing measure. It includes information about the structure of the test, answering procedures, explanations of correct answers for verbal and quantitative questions, sample writing responses with scores, scoring information, a math review, and test-taking strategies

Founded in 1776 during the reign of King Jeongjo, the Kyujanggak served as the Joseon Dynasty’s royal library. It housed countless royal books and documents that are now considered priceless Korean historical records. The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies of Seoul National University ― where the library is now located ― has published two books on Kyujanggak in English. “Kyujanggak: Rediscovering its History and Culture,” one of the two volumes, offers a historical overview of the development of the royal library

Occasionally a book comes along that is so innocent and seemingly unmindful of current literary fashion that, paradoxically, it shocks--Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, Proulx's Shipping News, McCourts's Anglela's Ashes are works that surprised and delighted unsuspecting readers. So will this extraordinary first novel by Irishman Nolan, who, at 33 years of age, has spent his entire life as a quadraplegic, unable to speak. You wouldn't know it from his perfectly crafted, exquisitely written story, telling the life of Minnie (n e Humphries) O'Brien, born and bred in Westmeath, a rural area west of Dublin. One of the extraordinary aspects of The Banyan Tree is its very ordinariness: the only daughter of a shopkeeper, Minnie marries Peter, a farmer; they tend to livestock, churn their own butter, eat their own eggs and raise three children

This book is intended for preparing to English

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides an overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history

This book is intended to prepare to English